Demolition of a Wall (1973)

DEMOLITION OF A WALL takes six frames of the falling wall from the 1896 Lumiere film and reorders these six frames in all their permutations With a score for piano that follows a similar pattern the film resembles change ringing a musical form developed in England in the 17th century where the tuned bells of a church tower are rung in a series of mathematical patterns called changes Here we see 718 additional variations on the original theme